Installing Serial ATA HDD for use in Sarge

[bahman]

Hi People,

I have the following:

1. image 1 sarge
2. 2xHardDisk Sweagate ATA-100
3. AUSU Motherboard P4P800-E

I have installed accoring to the instruction given to create an RAID 1. Then used win98 boot disk to format the HardDisk.

I started the PC with the sarge image1 CD. The installation starts well and continues until the partitioning the drives. And I get an error "No disk found!"

I can post the compelet error if required.

Note: Installing Debian for one hard disk is good, no errors.

Best Regards
Bahman

[trave11er]

I have installed accoring to the instruction given to create an RAID 1. Then used win98 boot disk to format the HardDisk.

I started the PC with the sarge image1 CD. The installation starts well and continues until the partitioning the drives. And I get an error "No disk found!"

If your goal is a Debian-only machine with RAID1 array, you should be able to construct that array directly during installation. You have to use a recent build of the development version of the debian-installer though. You can get it from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer . And do not format anything using the win98 boot disk , the installer can create the native Linux filesystem (such as ext3) for you.

[bahman]

Thank you for the reply.

I have tried several methods but they did not work. Now I follow your suggestion.

One thing though, the manual for the Motherboard Asus P4P800-E says that I have to use a different 40-1 pin slot on the board rather than using the usual pin. I did that and debian didn't see the HDDs.

So I don't know what to do about that. There is 50/50 chance here...

Best Regards
Bahman